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re: what was your first experience at tiger stadium?

Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:02 pm to
Posted by ROPtiger
Vicksburg, MS
Member since Jul 2015
48 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:02 pm to
1st home game 1959……season tickets…….cannot explain how I got this old so quickly!
Posted by McGregor
Member since Feb 2011
6315 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:05 pm to
the 14-14 tie. Really good game but nobody left feeling good.

I was 13 or so. I had been to a bunch of Ala games but never a road game that came down to the wire. Place was electric. I love LSU a little more than the rest because of that day with my dad, bought some LSU shorts in the stadium gift shop after the game. Not sure my dad loved that.
Posted by BRich
Old Metairie
Member since Aug 2017
2219 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:12 pm to
Season opener, 1983 against Florida State, which was a day game.

It was my first year at LSU-- I was a sophomore and had gone to Trinity in San Antonio on scholarship my freshman year. Didn't really like it and all my friends who were going to LSU were calling me and telling me what a blast it was. Plus LSU had a great team that year and Trinity was something like Division 3; they even played some Mexican college teams. So I left Trinity and transferred to LSU for my sophomore year. One of my best decisions ever.

I had attended college games growing up before- Miss. State, USM, and Tulane (one game in Tulane stadium, lots more in the Superdome). But nothing was like Tiger Stadium.

Two weeks later I experienced my first Saturday night in Tiger Stadium, a blowout win over highly-ranked Washington. That for many years was the largest crowd in Tiger Stadium history. We watched it sitting in the aisles. After that they began limiting student tickets; up till that game you just showed your ID and got in.

Great memories...
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 10:13 pm
Posted by FlyFishinTiger
Fayetteville,AR
Member since Mar 2021
703 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:15 pm to
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Posted by headboard banger
Dark side of the Moon
Member since Jan 2005
2955 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:27 pm to
1971. I was 10 y/o. The whole family went to the Billy Graham crusade.
Posted by lsuson
Metairie
Member since Oct 2013
12173 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:28 pm to
Was in the LSU band, played in front of 80,000+ fans against Texas A&M Sept 3,1994. I remember it like it was yesterday. When I was on the field for pregame I thought I was going to piss on myself it was so excited and nervous. Then found out early the next morning my father had passed away that Saturday.
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
Member since May 2009
80178 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:55 pm to
Arkansas 1993, LSU lost
Posted by moontigr
Washington Commanders Fan
Member since Nov 2020
3405 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:57 pm to
Ohio 89
Posted by austintexastiger
Austin, Texas
Member since Aug 2006
1913 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:03 pm to
Ole Miss w/Archie 27 LSU 24. I was a devastated child but totally hooked
Posted by craycray
S. Lake Tahoe
Member since Jan 2018
585 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:05 pm to
September 18, 1982 vs Oregon State as an usher with the Boy Scouts
Posted by adavis
North of I-10
Member since Aug 2007
5749 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:13 pm to
1997- LSU lost to Notre Dame 24-6. Kevin Faulk broke the LSU career rushing record that game though and they beat Notre Dame in the Independence Bowl later that year.
Posted by BrohanDavey
The Land Down Under
Member since Oct 2018
704 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:39 pm to
LSU v. Florida 1997

My parents brought me, but I was three and don’t remember any of it.
Posted by Beef Supreme
Member since Apr 2008
1920 posts
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:57 pm to
quote:

Unofficially, the 1991 Vanderbilt game. It was a thriller, and that shows you where our program was at the time.


I know that I had earlier trips to Tiger Stadium in my life but this is the first memory I can recall. I was 9 years old sitting in the northeast corner with my parents. Looking down the goal line. I can still vividly see the ball pop loose. To this day it is one of my all time favorite football memories. That was Curly's first win and everyone was going nuts.

Later that season is another memory that's seared into my brain. #1 FSU comes to play and no matter how many times my dad corrected me i thought everything worked like pro wrestling and that if we beat #1 we became #1. Chad Loup found Kinchen for like 70 yards on our 2nd play and the stadium went insane. Then a monsoon hit and we lost. And the Hallman Era became what I knew LSU football to be.
Posted by tigernchicago
Alabama
Member since Sep 2003
5075 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:14 am to
1969: big wins against aTm and Baylor
Posted by sta4ever
The Pit
Member since Aug 2014
15174 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:16 am to
LSU ULM 2003. What’s crazy is that I ended up going to college at ULM. Still a diehard Tiger fan to this day though.
Posted by Lige
Member since Nov 2015
1422 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 5:11 am to
What a great one to see!
Posted by js1591
Member since Jan 2020
2664 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 5:30 am to
LSU vs Tulane. Tommy Hodson was the QB. The Tulane QB was a running QB. There were 2 African American girls sitting behind me. Every time he ran, they would yell, “BREAK HIS LEGS!!!”
Posted by rob62
Member since Sep 2016
5165 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 6:03 am to
In 1963 I was 7 and went to my first LSU game with My Dad and Uncle. LSU beat Kentucky but I forget the score. I do remember the hamburger was terrible. Lol.
Posted by DenverTigerMan
Denver
Member since Nov 2005
2273 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 6:08 am to
1969 Homecoming. LSU 21 Auburn 20
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
20383 posts
Posted on 7/27/22 at 6:09 am to
1983 or 1984. I was a kid and remember watching Jeff Wickersham and Dalton Hillard play.
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